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I love the National Hockey League, but sometimes it does the most inexplicable and cheesy things to promote itself. Like the time the Ottawa Senators did a super corny 300-style pre-game ceremony, which was the funniest thing in league history until the Vegas Golden Knights did this whole Medieval Times thing at a playoff game in 2018. But this week the Philadelphia Flyers might have outdone them all, because they introduced their new team mascot Gritty (yes his name is really “Gritty”), and it is super creepy.

We’d say “oh dear god,” but Gritty might be proof there is no god. (As is his “only-the-NHL-would-think-this-is-a-cool” intro.)

But while this abomination–which we imagine will bring joy to very disturbed children–might be terrifying, the internet at least had some fun with it, because memes were created to make light of something born of darkness, which Gritty himself embraced.